My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
KEITH RICHARDSMy life is full of broken halos.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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